The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-20
Ice Morris to the pen and kin him WITH .

1co Norris 20 the pen and kill him with 4
knife he had made for the pul pose.
Bis aCcomplsces weakened 20 he has
now placed N the deeoetiVe,B hand COR
fession which duplicates his accomplices
IN IN attempt 20 rob IN express train on
the Vandalia line as Long Point In july,
1855. When the midnight east-bound ex-
pres train stopped at Long Point. which
IL II lonely piece Of woodland. Murray
and one Of his accOmplicee boarded the
engine and covered the engineer and ire
mea with reV0lvers while the third board
ed the train, cut the bell rope. and un-
coupled the express car. Murray GhoE
Engineer Milo Ames dead because he re-
fused 20 60 ahead and then ran the engins
and express Car thrss"quarterg OF . mile
from the train. The robbers then tried 20
break open the car. but were prevented
By the messenger who kept then ct bay
with revolver. The approach Of the
conductor and passengers frightened the
robbers OF.
The tue story Of this robbery and muir
der has never before been known. Murray
says he was induced 70 make the comics.
sion by the fact that his numerous robbOr.
les would keep him In the pen most of his
life aad he hoped by the confession to rid
himself Of life Imprisonment by hang
ing.
One aceompIice II in st. Louis and De
and the other Il in the far west.
IN. sCo'e DYNAMITE YIKNDs.
SAN FRANcIaC0, Gal. Jan. 14-Resi.
dents on Post street, between Larkin and
Polk streets, were startled last evening by
the sound OF . tremendous explosion. a
dynamite cartridge had been placed on the
track Of the Larkin atreet branch line of
the Suffer street cable road and exploded
under dummy No "a. The dummy was
conplotely wrecked and the windows of
the car and OF houses in the vicinity were
demolished. MIR. Hildebrendt and his
wife and brother we're sitting in the dunn.
my on the side whore the explosion took
place. They were AL thrown into the
street and Mrs. aildebraAdt, Il II feared, II
sori00aly Injured. 1t was . Miracle that
there were no others injured, as several
persons were on the dummy. People IN
the vicinity rushed to the scene of the
disaster and soon Q large crowd had con-
gregAted. Officer ConbeY, who was on the |
dummy, in describing his sensations. said
that the explosion had the effsct Of mo-
mentAIily stunning him and iI was fully |
half an hour before he recovered his hear |
ing. Excitement caused by this explo- |
sion intensified when 1t became known |
that another explosion had taken place /
en- Suffer street cable road near Dupont |
street about an hour later. The explosion |
II believed 70 have been caused BY Q giant /
powder cartridge placed under the dun-
my and the wheels running over It. No
one was injured by the last explosion, a.
the charge IN the cartridge was evidently
small. The authorities are entirely at
lOsss &c to the authors of these outrages,
and have as yet not obtained the slightest
clue TO the perpetrators of any of these
frequent attempts at destruction of life
and properly ON the Gary and Suffer
street cable roads. Three men who we're
On the Post street dummy were bruised,
but none of them seriously hurt. Two
men have been arrested on suspicion of
being concerned IN the outrage. Their
names cannot be aec0rtained. Later in
The evening an unexplOded dynamite car
ridge was found near Scott street, on the
Gary street road. The cartridge had evil
1entIy been placed on the track but
had rolled of.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ELnPB.
NEW YORK. Jan. lS.-The wife and
daughter OF Herman Fish, German, who |
Tor . number OF years has kept q boarding
house on the boulevard at Union Hill,
Jersey City, have both elOp-d. Some
lime ago the daughter, Annie, made the
OF dashing young fellow.
He called frequently, proposed and was
but when he asked Fish for his
hand he was met with Q stern
refusal The next night they both dis
appeared and were married. Now his
vile hiss left him, too, with . boarder
named Frank DOllsnd, brakeman en-
ployed on the West Shore railroad.
NO VERDICT REACHED.
WYANDoTTE, Kas., Jan. IA The jury /
trying George Hamilton. accused OF train
wrecklng, was released last evening, it |
being impossible to agree upon q verdict.
The jury stood seven for conviction to i've |
for acquIttal. The defendant was remand
ed to fail to await q new trial.
ADvERcE TO NCQUADE.
NRW YORK, Jan. 14.-Judge Pratt OF |
Brooklyn has rendered q decision in the |
case of Arthur ]. McQuade, ex-aldermsn |
Of New York and convicted OF bribery IN |
the matter of the Broadway railroad fran
chise, and In which decision McQuade's |
motion for 9 stay Of proceedings pending |
an appesl is denied.